diff --git a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/hooks/useChat.ts b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/hooks/useChat.ts
index 1b2c821b..7e642249 100644
--- a/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/hooks/useChat.ts
+++ b/src/workspaces/officerdev/src/hooks/useChat.ts
@@ -301,9 +301,19 @@ export function useChat(initialSessionId?: string, initialModel?: string | null,
     });
   }
 
-  function commitStreaming() {
-    if (!streamingRef.current) return;
-    const text = streamingRef.current;
+  /**
+   * Turn the in-flight streaming buffer into a committed message.
+   *
+   * `authoritative` is the complete text from the `assistant:text` event that ends the stream, and it
+   * wins whenever it is present. The buffer is an accumulation of deltas and is only ever as good as the
+   * socket: lose one frame — a restart mid-turn will do it — and it is short by whatever that frame
+   * carried, while the event carries the whole message. Committing the buffer threw away a correct copy
+   * in favour of a damaged one, which is how a reply rendered as "ipped." with its first two characters
+   * missing while the durable log held it intact.
+   */
+  function commitStreaming(authoritative?: string) {
+    if (!streamingRef.current && !authoritative) return;
+    const text = authoritative ?? streamingRef.current;
     streamingRef.current = '';
     setStreamingText('');
     setMessages((prev) => [...prev, { role: 'assistant', id: randomId(), text }]);
@@ -427,7 +437,7 @@ export function useChat(initialSessionId?: string, initialModel?: string | null,
           break;
         }
         if (streamingRef.current) {
-          commitStreaming();
+          commitStreaming(msg.text);
         } else {
           setMessages((prev) => [...prev, { role: 'assistant', id: randomId(), text: msg.text }]);
         }